White: Some are taking advantage of our local homeless

3:26 PM,
Sep. 4, 2013

Written by

Iona M. White
Shreveport

Some taking advantage of our local homeless

This letter comes to bring attention to an issue that needs to be dealt with ASAP - the mistreatment of the homeless in Shreveport. I know what I am speaking of because I once was homeless. There are programs claiming they are providing for the needs of the homeless while all they are doing is exploiting the homeless situation for their own personal profit.

Many of them are guilty of the following: ...

? Requiring the homeless to pay enormous fees for things that are being funded by grants;